Wesley's STCCG card of the day #34

Hi, folks,

after yesterday's offensive card let's take a quick look at its counterpart:

HUGH

Interrupt, rare
Nullifies attack by Borg Ship OR destroys(discard) all Rogue Borg at one location.
"The Federation named a rescued Borg, Hugh. When he returned, his newly acquired self-aware personality collapsed the Borg collective."

The card text already states that Hugh has two uses, one somewhat sensible, the other one not so sensible at all.

The more efficient use is to play him on a bunch of Rogue Borg when they are strong enough to wipe out your crew or just keep you from completing an important mission. However, in the latter case of a disturbing attack by a single RB, Amanda Rogers(U) will have the same effect and she is a much more versatile card. Also, there are quite a lot of other defenses against an RB attack. Both the Temporal Rift(U) and the Emergency Transporter Armbands(C) will effectively nullify an attack by removing the legal target (occupied ship). Also, a simple Phaser/Disruptor and a large crew will make the number of RB needed to successfully win prohibitively high unless there is at least one Crosis with them. In most cases I just resort to Amanda'ing the Crosis and the rest will most probably fall.

Even of less use is the "nullify Borg Ship attack" function. As you can con- trol when to attempt missions, there is no need to uncover a Borg Ship with a defenseless ship of yours unless you're in a really bad position to start with. The only justification for including Hugh on this basis is when you play the Borg ship yourself and need a defense in case your opponent gets it a little too early for your taste...

Favorite combo(s):

None. Hugh is just a counterspell. (OOPS, that was the MtG player speaking :-) )

Ratings for : HUGH

Wesley's rating:                4.0
Jon's rating:                   4.0
Allen Castaban's rating:        9.0
Tim Kwong's rating:             8.0
Jason's rating:                10.0 
Habib's rating:                 6.5
Bryan's rating:
Data's rating:
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LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

"A couple of lightyears can't keep good friends apart"